Unarmed White Teen Shot Dead By Non-White Utah Cop

a reply to: Greven
Those words came from the chief of police! "Which Officer Olsen" Are you just trying to be dense? It means there are 2 Olsens! How can you get
anything other than that? My intuition tells me that the black Olsen is in that cadet graduation photo! I am willing to stake my reputation on it!
You'll see... oh and isn't it odd that we can't get a photo of this non-white officer, yet Darren Wilson's photo is available as well as his house!
Double standard? You bet there is!

You keep asserting this, but I see no proof. I'm not "trying to be dense" here - I simply do not see the logical or factual links.

How do you know that an Officer Olsen (it doesn't matter which, assuming there is more than one) is named as having shot the teenager?

I have not been able to find such a thing, nor have I found such in this thread. Perhaps you can provide a link?

I suspect that someone noticed the caption for the photo in the story you wrote in the OP, which was about the dog shooting incident involving Brett
Olsen - a separate incident entirely - and conflated the two incidents.

And they released the video. Careful watching it though, it explicitly shows a trigger happy cop with no control over his adrenaline shooting a
person who is obviously confused and/or in shock who is also starting to put their hands up.

The cop perceived his life was in danger from the man walking slowly away from him and started obeying his panicked out of control commands.

a reply to: framedragged
Thanks for posting the video. I have a question now about this. You're saying the cop that shot Dillon was white. Why then did the SLC police chief
say that he was non-white? I didn't just make that up. It's a direct quote from him in the SLC Tribune. Maybe the body camera footage isn't from
the "non white" cop?

The cop on the right looks like he's black. Maybe that's the black trigger happy Officer Olsen. I don't like that they are not showing the entire
video and that the audio is all hacked up. Coverup in progress!

EDIT: After looking at the video again, it is the cop wearing the body camera that shot Dillon. Here's the moment he shot him.

Police state that when ordered to stop and show his hands by Officer Bron Cruz, the killer cop who was following Taylor as he walked away,
Taylor said, “No, fool.”, this is apparently punishable by death. Read more at
thefreethoughtproject.com...

So Bron Cruz is the cop who shot Dillon, and his police chief identified him as being non-white. So I presume that means Hispanic? This is still
murder by the cops, no matter the race. I'll find a photo of this killer cop and post it once it's found.

a reply to: deadcatsrule
You can't lay all the blame for this on me. The story broke that it was a black cop shooting an unarmed white teen, so I ran with it. The scumbag
police chief said he was non-white. Cops like this should find another line of work.

In a transcript from a deposition taken after the shooting, Officer Cruz said he was “100 percent convinced” that Mr. Taylor had a gun when he
turned around, according to the Deseret News. “I was scared to death. The last thought I had go through my mind when I pulled the trigger, and
I’ll never forget this … was that I was too late. I was too late. And because of that, I was going to get killed. Worse, my [partner] was going to
get killed,” the officer said in the deposition.

a reply to: deadcatsrule
No apology necessary, I deserve ridicule sometimes, lol. I see what you mean though. I don't know where I got mixed up thinking that Bron Cruz was
actually a black Brett Olsen... I must have mixed up some articles I read. Then my one track mind determined that Olsen wasn't Hispanic, leading to it
must be black. The chief should have just said the cop was Hispanic and saved me all this grief.

Here's a link that shows a little more video footage of Dillon being murdered. It's bloody... but I think people should see it. See what these cops
are doing to innocent people, it's bad, all because they're scared witless... Get another job! www.addictinginfo.org...

So Bron Cruz is the cop who shot Dillon, and his police chief identified him as being non-white. So I presume that means Hispanic? This is still
murder by the cops, no matter the race. I'll find a photo of this killer cop and post it once it's found.

But it does matter to YOU!,you were the one looking for an equivalency here, bad black cop shooting white teen where is the black
protest/unrest where the hell is Sharpton and Jessie.
Now I do not lay the blame on you for the apparent mistaken identity of the killer cop but to your approach on this whole matter, incidentally I do
think Sharpton and Jessie should lend their support to the family of this kid and other victims of police murders for if they are true followers of
the King then:

I would just like to say that I have been to the 7-11 where this occurred and quite recently. For what it is worth I would like to point out that
whites are the minority in the area. The majority of the population are refugees and the area is very racially diverse.

a reply to: Spider879
I see your point. You are right I was trying to point out the difference in coverage with the races reversed. I was led astray by the faulty media
reports and the vague, evasive police chief. However you can't deny that the media does focus attention on a story when it's a white cop, black
shooting victim. I was reacting to that constant coverage angle and the constant practice of ignoring black on white crime. Or saying that such crime
is not racially motivated. Such as the "knockout game" aka "polar bear hunting". It's hard not to react the way I do after dealing with the realities
I just mentioned.

So if there was fair media coverage by the media when cops unjustly kill citizens, leaving the race factor out of it, just focus on the fact that cops
are killing unarmed citizens it would be better and keep everyone united in putting a stop to it. It's like the media has a job assigned to
them to cause divisiveness! They're doing a good job...

a reply to: calstorm
When you say refugees, wouldn't it be more accurate to say illegal aliens? Refugees is a term used to describe people fleeing from a war zone. I
don't think there's a war going on south of the border, just poverty and corrupt governments. Just like here. I think you meant to say illegal
aliens. Or is that too, not politically correct for me to say? Too bad I said it and it's an accurate description.

a reply to: Mikeultra
No it would not be more accurate since most are indeed here legally. They are people fleeing war zones. While many are from Northern Africa, the
Middle East and so on, their are many latinos as well coming from war torn south America.

So no, your description is not accurate. As a California native with experience with illegals, I know the difference.

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